It was with a sense of inevitability that the search for solutions to the world climate crisis led to legislation that appeared to ensure the imposition on the world of an all-electric 911 by 2035. In March the European Parliament formally approved a law banning the sale of any new car with an internal combustion (ICE) engine from 2035. Hybrids, predicted by many to be the escape route for an ICE 911, were included in the ban.
And then the normally steady, reliable, German government threw a giant spanner in the works, threatening to derail the whole process unless a loophole was included for new vehicles running exclusively on carbon-neutral eFuels. Despite fury from fellow EU governments, and car makers including Ford and Volvo who had publicly – and expensively – pinned their future to the all-electric mast, the EU caved in.
EU commission vice-president, Frans Timmemans tweeted, “We have found an agreement with Germany on the future use of eFuels in cars.” German transport minister, Volker Wissing also went public, proclaiming that “the way is clear” for vehicles with internal combustion engines that only use CO2-neutral fuels to be newly registered after 2035. It probably wouldn’t take much detective work to find some Porscheshaped footprints somewhere in
